16 dead, 30 wounded in three blasts in northeast Syria: Monitor

Blood stains the ground near a restaurant where a suicide bomb blew up in Qamishli, Syria on December 30, 2015.

PHOTO: Reuters

Qamishli, Syria - At least 16 people were killed and 30 wounded by explosions in three restaurants in the northeast of Syria on Wednesday, a monitoring group said, in attacks claimed by the Islamic State group.

At least one of the blasts in the city of Qamishli was caused by a suicide bomber, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP.

An AFP correspondent in the city said the suicide attack took place in a restaurant in a Christian neighbourhood.